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Through his latest move in the field of finance, President Roosevelt has given a good indication of his diplomatic mettle, and at the same time has very definitely strengthened the bargaining power of the United States in the approaching tariff parley with Messrs. Herriot, Bennett, and MacDonald. It was very neatly timed. With seeming Machiavellian finesse, Roosevelt waited until the European statesmen were in Mid-Atlantic, definitely isolated from home counsels, before he announced America's abdication from the gold standard. Their arrival in New York should find them considerably non-plussed...
...might think that "if they all meet around the council-table, face to face, and discuss the matter quietly and sensibly, things could be arranged to the satisfaction of everyone." It is this hope that will be aired frequently as the Washington parley, and later, the World Economic Conference, draw near...
...armored cars. They bombard the gangster's distillery, deliver its occupants to a firing squad. Throughout the picture the invisible presence of the Angel Gabriel is felt no more strongly than that of William Randolph Hearst whose cinema company made the film. President Hammond holds a debt parley on a yacht, gives visiting diplomats a display of U. S. navy planes sinking an obsolete warship. Then he proposes that Europe pay its debts in full on pain of being annihilated by a U. S. Navy built beyond treaty limits. All this ends in a covenant of total and apparently...
Having blasted away at each other all week through an amplifying system which made every murmur an angry shout, the labor executives' committee and the railway executives adjourned from the smoky ballroom to Room No. 13. Conspicuously not present at the knee-to-knee parley was fatherly President Daniel ("Uncle Dan") Willard of the B. & 0. who, with amiable President David Brown Robertson of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen, patched together the existing wage arrangement. And although present, President Robertson was no longer the voice of railway labor. New leaders were General Manager William Francis Thiehoff of Chicago...
...which the Wartime Prime Minister cried: "The Mother of Parliaments is jibbering about unimportant matters while millions of her gold is about to be taken to a foreign land. . . . Were I the head of His Majesty's Government, I would say to the Americans what France has said: 'No parley...